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	<h2>Main screen</h2>
	<p>The main screen of the Invention Calculator contains all important information about your invention attemps.	On the left, a list with all inventable items is shown. It is possible to limit the amount of items that appear in this list, based on the <a href="Filter.html">filter</a> you specify. On the right, all relevant details for inventing the selected item are shown.</p>
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	<p>The numbers in the above screen shot are described in detail below:</p>
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	  <li>List of all items, based on the current <a href="Filter.html">filter</a>. Using the "Columns" button at the bottom, you can select which <a href="Columns.html">columns</a> should be visible in this list. The items in this list are Tech 1 items which can be used in invention. The column "Invention Profit" lists the most profitable-to-invent of all Tech 2 items, based on your <a href="DefaultSettings.html">default</a> settings.</li>
	  <li>Basic properties related to inventing the selected item, including the different Tech 2 items that can be invented from the selected Tech 1 item.</li>
	  <li>The costs of a single invention job are listed here. The costs depend on the decryptor you use, as well as the meta-item and the amount of runs on the BPC.</li>
	  <li>Here the revenue of a succesful invention job is calculated. This depends on the sell price and build cost of the Tech 2 item, as well as the time it takes to manufacture the item. The total profit (or loss) for an item is then multiplied by the number of runs that the Tech 2 BPC will have.</li>
	  <li>The last box is the most important one. Here you can see, in order:
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		  <li>Your chances for succesfully inventing the selected item, which entirely depends on the <a href="Formula.html">invention formula</a> that is used.</li>
		  <li>The number of attempts until success is the average amount of invention jobs you need to run to get one successful outcome. In the example, a 40% chance means that every 4 out of 10 invention jobs will, on average, succeed. This is the same as one out of every 2.5 jobs.</li>
		  <li>Average cost until success is the result from box 3 multiplied by the number of attempts until success.</li>
		  <li>Average revenue when successful is the result from box 4.</li>
		  <li>Average profit when successful is the two previous numbers subtracted from each other.</li>
		  <li>Average profit per invention job is the average profit per successful job divided by the number of runs until success.</li>
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